Conversations that are rooted in ACTION
We convene diplomacy and peacebuilding experts, policymakers, and development actors in shared spaces, enabling the co-creation of strategic pathways that link climate resilience to long-term peace and regional stability. These dialogues generate collective ownership, strengthen multilateral cooperation, and lay the groundwork for diplomatic engagement and joint resource management. By embedding climate security into the broader human development agenda, our platforms catalyze actionable commitments that move beyond rhetoric to tangible outcomes in policy and practice.
Community-led Peacebuilding
We facilitate inclusive spaces that elevate local knowledge and community-driven solutions to climate-related conflict. By engaging youth, women, and traditional leaders, these conversations strengthen social cohesion and promote locally grounded peacebuilding approaches. This ensures that resilience strategies are context-specific, participatory, and capable of addressing the root causes of tension and instability.
We create spaces that interrogate the status Quo
Our dialogues inform policy & deciison making
Migration & Displacement
We convene cross-border dialogues that bring together policymakers, humanitarian actors, and community representatives to address climate-induced migration and displacement in the Sahel. These platforms focus on aligning protection frameworks, strengthening adaptive livelihoods, and fostering regional cooperation. By centering lived experiences, Skylark ensures policies respond to the realities of displaced populations while promoting stability, dignity, and long-term resilience.
Risk Mapping & Conflict Prevention
Through multi-stakeholder dialogues, we seek to translate climate and security data into shared risk awareness and early action strategies. By engaging security actors, researchers, and local leaders, these conversations support the co-creation of conflict prevention mechanisms, integrating environmental indicators into peacebuilding systems. The result is improved anticipatory governance and coordinated responses to emerging climate-related security threats.
Governace, Knowledge Building & Partnerships
Our dialogue platforms support the integration of climate security into governance systems at local, national, and regional levels. By engaging public institutions and policy actors, these conversations strengthen institutional capacity, policy coherence, and accountability. The focus is on embedding climate-security considerations into decision-making processes to enhance stability, equity, and long-term development outcomes. We facilitate collaborative dialogue spaces that connect researchers, practitioners, and institutions to co-produce knowledge and share best practices.
Community of Practitioners
Through sustained engagement platforms, Skylark Centre nurtures a dynamic community of practitioners working at the intersection of climate, peace, and security. Our spaces enable continuous exchange, peer learning, and collaboration across sectors and regions. The result is a strengthened network of actors equipped to drive coordinated, scalable, and impact-driven responses to climate security challenges.
Diplomacy and Peace Finance
We convene high-level dialogues linking climate security priorities with diplomatic engagement and financing mechanisms. By bridging governments, donors, and development institutions, Skylark fosters alignment between policy ambition and resource allocation. These platforms advance innovative financing approaches that integrate peacebuilding and climate adaptation, ensuring sustainable investment in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
● Public Engagements
Find us at
London Climate Action Week
JuneHamburg Sustainability Conference
JuneUNCCD COP 17 - Mongolia
AugustGeneva Peace Week & Berlin Climate and Security Conference
OctoberParis Climate Week
NovemberOur Spaces
Climate, Peace and Security at the heart of the Abidjan Dialogue
Surge Africa participated in the Abidjan Dialogue, organized by Adelphi, the EU and UNEP in March 2026. It aimed to improve the understanding of climate security risks and identify entry points for stakeholders to address these cascading risks at all level of governance. The Dialogue gathered 40 experts from different sectors and institutions and covered the Sahel and Gulf of Guinea region.
After COP30: Securing Peace in a Warming World (A Path to Ottawa Event)
Surge Africa organized an online discussion exploring how peace and security featured before, during, and after COP30, and why the nexus remained marginal in formal UNFCCC negotiations. It unpacked the political dynamics shaping the summit, the visibility of climate–peace–security issues across the blue and green zones, and the influence of presidency priorities, funding constraints, and wider geopolitical tensions. By taking stock of these factors, the session aimed to clarify how climate security was positioned at COP30 and what this means for future global climate governance.
Regional Roundtables
July - September 2026
The programme will convene a structured series of four high-level roundtable sessions, held at two-week intervals between June and September. Each session will focus on a distinct but interlinked dimension of climate–peace–security (CPS), enabling iterative exchange, continuity of dialogue, and progressive alignment of ideas across regions. The format is designed to balance strategic exchange with actionable outputs, targeting policymakers, diplomats, practitioners, and researchers from West Africa, Central Africa, and the Horn of Africa.